The BNP’s performance in yesterday’s Sedgefield by-election seems to have drawn little comment.

In fact the BNP candidate, Andrew Spence, took 9% of the vote.

It was a by-election.  The turnout was risible.  None of the main parties gave the constituency half as much attention as they did Ealing Southall.

All true.  But it’s equally true that, outside of some ethnically charged parts of the East End/Essex and Greater Manchester/Lancashire, this is the BNP’s best electoral showing for some time.

And it happened in an overwhelmingly white constituency, a rock solid Labour seat with comparatively little immigration or problems with racism.

I don’t wish to give those contemptible gimps publicity but does someone, somewhere within the major party machines not feel it worth lending a little bit of thought and energy to the question why nasty racists can pick up almost a tenth of the vote in the bright and sunny Britain of the 21st century?

Mind you, if Cameron continues to do as badly as this (the Tories have now not gained a seat at a by-election for A QUARTER OF A CENTURY – hahahaha!) it can only be a matter of time before the Bullingdon Buffoon straps on his jackboots and dusts off Michael Howard’s seminal handbook, How To Insinuate Despicable Views In Election Campaigns Without Ever Actually Saying What Everyone Knows You’re Saying.